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What is Agones?
Agones is an open source project that is built to be a batteries-included, dedicated game server scaling and
orchestration platform. It is built as a native extension of [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io), with the flexibility you need to tailor
it to the requirements of your multiplayer game. Anywhere you can run Kubernetes, you can run Agones.
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Define Fleets of GameServers, autoscaling and more, through YAML or the Kubernetes API.
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Integrated SDK for managing game server lifecyle, health and configuration.
Tools for local development included!
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Integration with [OpenCensus](https://opencensus.io/)
for backend agnostic game server metrics and monitoring
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Join the community on Slack
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We do a [Pull Request](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/agones/pulls) contributions workflow on **GitHub**.
New users are always welcome!
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For announcement of latest features etc.
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